Sort photos by face

How to group photos by person

1. Open the app and choose your photo folder.
2. Click "Find people". Every face is detected and similar faces are grouped together. The first scan of a large folder takes several minutes.
3. Name the people you care about. Click a group, type a name, and merge any groups that turn out to be the same person.
4. Use the result. Browse one person's photos, search by name, or sort the photos into a folder per person.

Find a person from one photo

Have a picture of someone and want every other photo of them? Choose it as a reference and Photo Auditor lists the photos in your folder where the same face appears, best match first.

Fixing mistakes is quick

No face recognition is perfect. If one person is split in two, merge the groups. If a stranger slipped into a group, select the face and move it out. If results are uneven, the accuracy settings let you make matching stricter, or ignore tiny background faces, without scanning again.

Why do this in the browser

Cloud photo services group faces too, but only after you upload your whole library to them. Here the photos stay in the folder they are already in, on a drive you control, and the tool works on external drives and old archives that were never in the cloud.

Questions about grouping photos by face

Is the face recognition done online?

No. The face models are downloaded to your browser once and run on your own computer. Your photos and the faces in them are never sent anywhere.

How accurate is it?

Clear, front-facing faces group well. Very small, blurry or turned-away faces are harder, so they can be ignored with a setting. You can merge two groups of the same person or move a wrong face in a couple of clicks.

Can I find all photos of one person?

Yes. Open a person to see every photo they appear in, or use "Find a person from a photo" and pick any picture of them as the reference.

Can I put each person's photos in their own folder?

Yes. After naming people, the Organize tool copies or moves photos into one folder per person, and shows the full list of changes first.

Does it remember the names I gave?

Yes. Names and groups are saved in your browser for that folder, so they are still there the next time you open it.